Europan 11 (2011 - 2012)
RESONANCE BETWEEN TERRITORIES AND WAYS OF LIFE. What architectures for sustainable cities?
What can architecture signify for sustainable towns and cities?
The Europan 11 competition is taking place in conditions marked by a strong commitment amongst European cities to very stringent environmental objectives.
Following the Copenhagen climate change summit in 2009, municipalities became aware of the importance of what they do alongside central government to limit greenhouse gas emissions, control energy consumption and manage (or preserve) rare and non renewable resources such as water, as well as to diminish pollution of different kinds.
As a general rule, they are trying to achieve greater autonomy, in both food and energy, and want to develop societal innovations in order to encourage every citizen to adopt an eco-responsible lifestyle.
These geopolitical concerns need to be reflected in the design of urban spaces at the urban and architectural scale.
Click here for the full theme text by Robert-Jan de Kort.
Time schedule Europan 11
- start for participants: 28 February 2011
- information market: 12 March 2011
- site visits for participants: March 2011
- closing date for asking questions about sites: 13 May 2011
- closing date for registrations: 10 June 2011
- closing date for asking questions about rules: 17 June 2011
- closing date for uploading and handing in or sending of entries: 30 June 2011
- closing date for the receipt of entries sent by post: 22 July 2011
- start of adjudication: Autumn 2011
- international Cities & Juries Forum, Oslo, Norway: 4 + 5 November 2011
- award ceremony: 14 December 2011
- exhibition TU/e: 14 December 2011 - 14 January 2012
- international announcement of results: 15 December 2011
- national and local activities: Spring 2012
- presentation national publication: 8 March 2012
- exhibition NAI: 8 - 31 March 2012
- Forum of Results: Spring 2012
Jury Europan 11
- Floor Arons - architect Arons en Gelauff architecten (winner E4 Amsterdam)
- Kristiaan Borret (BE) - town architect Antwerp
- Helena Casanova (ES) - architect C+H architects (winner E6 Groningen and E7 Den Haag)
- Joost Glissenaar - architect architecten van Mourik (winner E5 Amsterdam)
- Hanneke Kijne - landschape architect HOSPER NL landscape architecture and urban design
- Marien de Langen - director Stadsgenoot
- Han Meyer - professor urban design TU Delft
- Astrid Sanson - director Urban Quality, municipality of Rotterdam
- Matthew Turner (UK) - architect and journalist
- Karen van Vliet - urban designer BGSV
PDF Files Europan 11
jury report English.pdf (985.3 kB) All entries Dutch sites.pdf (127.2 kB) All results Europe.pdf (244.6 kB) Press release Europan Europe.pdf (73.0 kB) Dutch winners abroad.pdf (57.8 kB)